Mike and Terri served as missionaries under BIMI in the Ukraine for six years.  During that time the Lord called their eight-month-old son home to Heaven.  Later, He gave them a daughter and at ten months of age she also went to be with the Lord.  During their daughter’s brief life, Mike took a job at the Pentagon to provide insurance for her heart surgeries.

Following these difficult times, they were able to adopt two Russian children and re-entered full time Christian service, first as a pastor and then an assistant pastor. 

God has now directed them to begin a new church on Pittsburgh’s Southside and they are working through the ministry of BIMI and Reseeding America.

“My father moved to America from Europe in the 1970’s and was born again in Chicago, Illinois. He and my mother raised me in a Christian home in Maryville, Tennessee, and I was saved as a young child. When I was twelve years old I was called to preach while at Fellowship Baptist Church in Maryville, after attending Camp Joy in Chattanooga. I was first burdened about being a missionary after hearing a missionary to Africa speak at our church, Brother Chris Lee. In the summer of 2005, I visited England as a New Testament Church Pioneer to help with a new church planting work alongside Pastors Colin Pavitt and missionary Roger Tooley. That is when I first met Natalie, and after a wonderful courtship and after finishing college, we were married on 27 July, 2007, in England. We have enjoyed serving the Lord together in Maryville, Tennessee but are thankful and excited to be giving our lives to serve the Lord in England.”

“I was raised in England in a Catholic family, but was saved at age twelve after reading a Gospel record of Luke that was given to me at a youth group meeting. When I was fifteen I met Pastor and Mrs. Colin Pavitt from the Lifegate Baptist Church, which was started thirty years ago by Mr. James Ray in Corby, England. I began attending and was able to grow in the Lord there. I graduated from the Lifegate School of the Scriptures and was involved in my church’s evangelism efforts, as well as ladies’ meetings, open air work, and church planting. I have taught Sunday School for about nine years. I met Jonathan in 2005, and moved to America with him after our wedding in 2007. We look forward now to a lifetime of serving the Lord together in England.”